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Environmental Monitoring Wallpaper

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Environmental Monitoring Wallpaper, 2010 Filters, mixed media, pollutants Environmental Monitoring Wallpaper is a DIY prototype for visualizing potential pollutants in the home. One filter is made of fine mesh nylon with a plastic resit pattern that I placed over a leaking bathtub facet. The result: brown stains, probably indicating iron from the pipes. The second is an air filter with a lung-like pattern stenciled onto it. After being in my air purifier for a month, I could see how much […]

Categories: Art • Tags: activist art, citizen science, environmental art, environmental health, environmental monitoring, interventionist art, praxis

Environmental Monitoring Dioramas

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Environmental Monitoring Diorama Series, 2009-2010 Trash, mixed media, various sizes While scavenging for Styrofoam from the old Dawson City dock in the Yukon, I noticed that huge holes had been dissolved or eaten into the plastic material. This had all happened underwater while the dock had been in service. Chemicals in the local Yukon River, where local people fished, dissolved Styrofoam. I used the damaged materials as the basis for a series of miniature northern landscapes; the pollutants did the […]

Categories: Art • Tags: environmental art, environmental monitoring, found objects, miniature dioramas, pollution monitoring, trash art

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